Technology

Technology at Sacred Heart College is one of the eight compulsory learning areas included in The New Zealand Curriculum. The Technology curriculum (Levels 1 to 5 and then NCEA Levels 6 to 8) consists of three strands – Technological Practice, the Nature of Technology and Technological Knowledge – and eight achievement objectives fit within those three strands. The aim is that teaching and learning aligns clearly with these three strands and supports the general development of a student’s technological literacy. All three strands work together to set the overall direction for learning in Technology and these are spread equally across the five focus technological disciplines:

Computational Thinking for Digital Technologies

Designing and developing Digital outcomes

Designing and developing Food Technology outcomes

Designing and developing Materials outcomes

Design and Visual Communication

Years 7 and 8

The students study a one-year compulsory programme of Technology and rotate five times per year, approximately every six weeks. In both Year 7 and Year 8 they study in the four focus areas of:

Materials Technology

Digital Technology

Computational Thinking

Food Technology

Year 9

The students study a single-year compulsory programme of Technology and rotate four times a year. They study all fiveareas of Technology listed below. Each area of Technology is assessed against the levels of The New Zealand Curriculum. The rotations, in no particular order, are:

Computational Thinking for Digital Technologies

Designing and developing Digital outcomes

Designing and developing Food Technology outcomes

Designing and developing Materials outcomes

Design and Visual Communication

Year 10

The students can opt for a technological area of study in Year 10. Technology is not compulsory but students can opt for more than one area of Technology if desired. The Year 10 programmes endeavour to:

Embed the strands of the Technological curriculum

Prepare students for NCEA Technological studies

Years 11 to 13

There are five NCEA pathways in Technology that run from Level 1 to Level 3. These are:

Design and Visual Communication (optional scholarship): this is a University Entrance subject

Hospitality

Digital Media (optional scholarship): this is a University Entrance subject

Computer Science (optional scholarship): this is a University Entrance subject

Carpentry: trade skills leading to pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship programmes.